Event: Facilitating "Social Business" - Open Space Event

What new institutions are required, to create an environment in which Social Businesses can flourish?

11th April 2008 - London, 09:00-17:00

Networking from 09.00; formal workshop begins at 10.00 and runs to 17.00, after which there will be further networking opportunities

Forthcoming open space event

Following up discussions on social business at the World Entrepreneur Summit in January, and in various forums during Dr Muhammad Yunus’s recent London visit, this event will bring together diverse interlocutors to address the headline question on facilitating social business and identify points for action.

This event has been sponsored by The Melanin Partnership and will be held at their premises (see below).

As preparation for this workshop, you are strongly encouraged to read Dr Yunus’s latest book, Creating a World Without Poverty.


Some Participants:
Mamading Ceesay of The Melanin Partnership
Lilly Evans from Strategic Learning Web
Brad Meyer from Collaboration Ltd
Ekaterina Mitiaev from The Hunger Project UK
Bazil Sansom - corporate banker

Register:
If you plan to attend, please email, text or call Patrick Moore (See details below) to confirm your attendance as capacity is not unlimited. Feel free to pass this invitation on to specific people, if you think they'll be interested.

See below links for explanations of both "open space events" and "social businesses".


Contact:
Patrick Moore - Life Synthesis
patrick.ac.moore@googlemail.com
+44(0)7765 999561

Information Otherwise

FreeHouse - Bazil Sansom
bazil@ippimail.com< />

Venue:
The Melanin Hive
5th Floor, Piano House, 9 Brighton Terrace, London SW9 8DJ


"Social Business:"

Muhamad Yunus's new book "Social Business and the future of Capitalism"
http://www.libertybooks.com/books/business-management-finance/general-miscellaneous/creating-a-world-without-poverty:-social-business-and-the-future-of-capitalism.html

Wikipedia - "Social Business"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_business


Open Space Events:

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology

Open Space World:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/

Life Synthesis Ltd
http://www.solaroof.org/wiki/LifeSynthesis/LifeSynthesis